Italian Popular Party

The Italian Popular Party (Partito Popolare Italiano) was a conservative Christian democratic party in the Kingdom of Italy. It was formed shortly after the Second War of Italian Independence in 1859 as the unified kingdom was as a result of the conflict. It did not rise to power until the victory in the Third War of Italian Independence against the Austrian Empire in 1882, which it advocated for while the ruling Moderati party did not. The Popular Party remained in power for the next several years and was dissolved in the 1920s by the Fascist movement.